Perhaps the epitome of evil in more recent times was Nazi Germany, though Soviet Russia and communist China could certainly compete with them for the total numbers of corpses created. One could imagine an enthusiastic SS officer gleefully goose-stepping everyday to the job he so enjoyed, overseeing the transport of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other enemies of the State to the gas chambers. As we know, his enemies also included anyone who dared to standup against the evil of the Holocaust. Certainly part of the reason these atrocities were enabled was that Hitler and his National Socialist comrades spent much of the 1930s dehumanizing the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and various other enemies of the State. They had a word for them: Untermensch, roughly translated as subhuman. It was easier for the masses to look away when the people being slaughtered were sub-humans, and of course standing up for the victims of the Nazis was difficult due to government-sponsored terrorism: just because you’re a blond haired Aryan doesn’t mean you are exempt from the ovens.

Up to the 1980s I was pro-abortion, even assisting in abortions during clinical rotations in school. What the heck: it’s just a blob of tissue, keep your hands off my body, “every child a wanted child,” it’s my right to choose, etc. I should have known better, but I was willfully ignorant, it being much easier to simply go along. Several experiences around that time made me question the prevailing cultural dogma, and I eventually found myself very much in the pro-life camp.

About 20 years later I was the volunteer medical director of a remote clinic in Kenya, East Africa. Though malaria was by far the most prevalent disease and killer, this was during the true crisis of the African AIDS epidemic, and I witnessed suffering beyond comprehension of the vast majority of Americans. One night a very pregnant lady came to the clinic with abdominal pain. It was obvious she was in the midst of a miscarriage, and after some time she delivered a beautiful baby girl, perhaps weighing one pound: by all standards of the American political left she was perfectly abortable. In New York recently there were government-sponsored celebrations of a law that allowed babies to be aborted who were much further along than this little girl, in fact up to and even after delivery.

At this clinic we had a pit, the place where we discarded medical waste including AIDS saturated blood and pus, infected feces, and items like used needles and scalpels. I happened to be there with an American nurse who was also pro-life, and we discussed what to do with the body of the little girl; neither of us could imagine throwing her into the pit of pus and blood so we dug a little grave for her and buried her in the morning.

The pro-abortion politicians and cultural aristocracy in the US have spent decades trying to strip the entity growing in a pregnant woman of all sense of humanity, propagating the idea that it is nothing or worse, at times equating it with a tumor or a parasite; that the little African girl deserved to be thrown into the pit of blood and pus and rot away. They even cut out parts from aborted babies and sell them, kind of “hey, business is business, why waste perfectly good human tissue when a profit can be made?” This is evil, plain and simple, but something they deftly and disgracefully talk about under the guise of health care, women’s rights, and “choice.”

In order to maintain their cultural hegemony, it’s important for the elite abortion establishment to denigrate those who cannot bring themselves to deny the humanity of the child in utero. Hence, they whip up vitriol by accusing their opposition of being “anti-women,” “against health care for women, and “anti-choice, vacuous and disingenuous slogans that nevertheless appeal to the ears of those who want to justify the convenience of ending the lives of children not yet born. In fact, inciting visceral hatred against the pro-life community is a basic strategy, as we’ve seen so pointedly since the illegal leak that a Supreme Court decision might overturn the hideous Roe versus Wade ruling of almost 50 years (and over 60 million children destroyed) ago.

The hysteria associated with this possibility quickly resulted in the firebombing of an office of a pro-life organization, and interestingly a direct call to violence by one of the Democrat party’s shining lights, the mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot, who issued a “call to arms” and vowed that “we will not surrender our rights without a fight — a fight to victory!” Ironically, especially considering the primary qualifications of Lightfoot are that she is a female, black, and lesbian, she sounds eerily similar to the Jim Crow racists when their utopian segregated society- where blacks knew their place- was threatened.

I converted to the pro-life position 40-years ago, and in all that time I’ve never known a single pro-life person (of which millions are women) who was “anti-women.” The key to promulgating and sustaining atrocities such as slavery, genocide, and abortion is to strip their targets of humanity so that enough people can accept the malevolence, so enough people are willing to throw the little African girl into the pit filled with pus and infected feces, and still somehow look at themselves in the mirror. It certainly doesn’t mean these people themselves are evil, it’s just that they want so much to believe a wrong is okay that they are willing to accept the lies.

There was a pretty song from the late 1990s by singer/songwriter Jewel entitled Hands. She had a reputation for composing songs with meaning, and one of the lines was, “In the end, only kindness matters.” Perhaps not entirely true, but not a bad guiding principle. In the end, abortion is viewed by some as a solution to a temporary difficult situation; there may be desperation associated with abortion, but there is never kindness. No matter how determined the pro-abortion establishment tries to demonize the being that will soon become a born baby that can be held and cherished, abortion is a violent act. There is no kindness in hating the baby, and no kindness in reviling millions of people who stand up for him or her. All choice ends once the baby is sucked out of the womb.